News Flash: The neural project will be supported and located at the
StandOutPublishing site for the time being.
If the book can be published (i.e., I.P. protection is obtained) that site is
where the book and software will be made available. Or at least that is the plan.

Welcome to my neural network page. It's just getting started.

For now I'll start some links to helpful resources... Mainly they will be
links that I personally might find useful, or links to my own contributions.
The hope is that some of what I find useful may also be useful to others, but
that is not a driving value for the time being. For now this page is here
mainly to get MY Neural Network information and
thoughts organized.

Just a warning: Much of my understanding behind this organization framework
stands in direct 180-degree oposition
to what has been related --in what would be considered-- mainstream neural network
"papers and publications" for the last 15 - 20 years.

So: For now (November-2007 and the immediately future)
everything here is "coming soon..." There is a temporary to-do list
further down on this page.

Links:

Robotics Links:

coming soon...

Neural Network Links:

Netlab (historical persepective only)(version 0.1)
Netlab version 0.1 (NLA001) is a Neural Network design package I
developed in 1989 and uploaded to CompuServe and GEnie in 1990. It
includes software tools and a document describing a new way to think
about neural network design and development. From the original Netlab
version 0.1 document:

NETLAB version 0.1 is an environment for building and running
neural networks. It gives you 700 "implants", 8000
connections, and a handful of input/output functions called
"prostheses". It allows you to connect anything in
this environment to anything else. The "implants" can
be configured as "neurons" which have special inputs
for training weights within their synapse-space. Like everything
else in the environment, anything can be connected to these weight
training inputs. Implants configured as "neurons" have
many configurable parameters such as attack, decay, and response
type (constant, Amacrine), and these parameters are configurable
on an individual basis. NETLAB is basically a
"hardware" model produced by a "hardware
hacker", and is in many ways geared to the hardware hacker.
NETLAB is NOT a collection of mathematical models. If you're
looking for a package that will let you run the
"black-box" models that are around [...] this is NOT
the package for you. NETLAB v. 0.1 comes with a special runtime
for Back-propagation (BAP.EXE), but this is a last minute throw-in,
and is the only "black-box" model included with NETLAB [v 0.1].

When I uploaded this first version of Netlab in 1990, I included permission for the
file to be distributed for non-revenue generating uses. By today's standards
this early version has many disadvantages. For example, the neuron output values
and weight values are only 8-bits wide (very little resolution). Still,
the package introduced early ideas about temporality, and the ability to use
stimuli (axon levels) to produce error levels for weight-training. That is, you
can connect an axon to a training input of a neuron to act as positive and negative
reinforcement stimuli for the neuron. In this early document version this was
referred to as "affective feedback" [sic].

The package has remained continuously available on the various pre-internet
networks and their Internet archival counterparts. The following is a
listing of some locations where you can find this distribution on the web. This early
version should be considered purely for the historical perspective it provides
to an upcoming Netlab release. It should not be thought of as a good
means of producing neural networks. That is, it is included here
purely for its historic significance relative to a new release of Netlab
that will be made within the next year or so.

For some reason Google has stopped indexing web file locations holding this early version
(I am quite clueless regarding the hows and whys of search engines).
Following is a list of some locations where the original Netlab version 0.1 programs and
documents can be downloaded. These
all contain the same content, but they are made available in different compression formats: